Which AAA games released in a finished state?

[Blitz4]

The list of unfinished games seems to be bigger than the list of finished games. I don't remember what a finished AAA game looks like anymore.

I'm interested in finding or starting a curator group that flags games as finished or not-finished at release to help reduce the anger I see in the forums.

I'd need to know if there's any AAA games that are finished at release and I can't name one.

[Blitz4]

Origineel geplaatst door Ratencio the comRat:

starfield? i mean it was delayed one year or so and i did not like the game but since they added pretty much nothing to the game in all the time it was released i supose its finished enough for the devs?

Exactly. I bet if you name a AAA game today, there's an over 90% chance that gamers would agree it was released unfinished.

The question of how do you defined finished. Someone mentioned this in the Cities Skylines 2 forums answering that question:

When the trailer and description correspond to what is inside the game + optimization + varied gameplay for 20-30 hours. This is the definition of a complete game. It's not a fact that it's good, but it's complete.

To me that means you'd have to beat the game to properly say if it's unfinished or not. You can say oh yea 90% it'll be easy to tell. The issue is being honest and listing all of the issues. Just like as AlienTestosterone said earlier, didn't have issues on their system. Maybe being upfront with the issues as a curator is the better option.

"Elden Ring is a thumbs down at launch. It's seemingly unfinished optimizations are causing some gamers transparent enemies even though they exceed the System Specs. Also the stutters are such a big problem that yours truly spent 10 hours trying to fix the stutters and only 6 hours playing the game. Created a guide in an attempt to help those with stutters, but there's no surefire solution outside of having a more powerful system. It seems the recommended specs aren't high enough to have a stable 60 fps experience with no stutters or issues. Below is a test you can do within your 2 hour return period to determine if you'll experience stutters, if you don't, great, below that lists how to reset your game to experience it as if you played it the first time."


Something like that would be more than helpful. A group of people out there for the consumers. The issue is, if you're aware, most of a games sales come in the first month after release and to do a detailed review like that requires a very early copy.

[Duck Twacy]

Origineel geplaatst door Blitz4:

The list of unfinished games seems to be bigger than the list of finished games. I don't remember what a finished AAA game looks like anymore.

I'm interested in finding or starting a curator group that flags games as finished or not-finished at release to help reduce the anger I see in the forums.

I'd need to know if there's any AAA games that are finished at release and I can't name one.

Quake and Quake 2. Both had patches, but they were essentially done when released years ago.

[vkobe]

Origineel geplaatst door Blitz4:

The list of unfinished games seems to be bigger than the list of finished games. I don't remember what a finished AAA game looks like anymore.

I'm interested in finding or starting a curator group that flags games as finished or not-finished at release to help reduce the anger I see in the forums.

I'd need to know if there's any AAA games that are finished at release and I can't name one.

in 2023

alan wake 2

i suppose spiderman 3 ???

[☄️⁧⁧Sneakydude555]

The only AAA game i have my most hours on is Fallout 4, due to mods ofc. Cyberpunk seems to be finished now but its really sad it didnt live up to its expectations when it released. The Outer worlds seems alright but its not New Vegas Material.

Remember when Games were made by little small groups of people? and a group of White Dudes in a Garage, small office room, or library? Now everything is Corporate, and now the AA studios are rising, which is the games ive been playing recently now.

I have no new incentive to upgrade my CPU (R5 3600) to pair well with my 6700xt which i recently upgraded from my 1660 due to that card being really slow at 1080p. A small bottle neck is something i can live with for the rest of my life, than spending 70-100 dollars for AAA games these days and finding out theyre Trash and not worth playing.

GTA 6 is either going to flop really hard or its going to get GOTY if does REALLY well, which i doubt it due to me seeing the devs at R* right now and what theyre doing. Plus, Us PC players wont even see GTA 6 by 2030 anyways lol.

[Caldari Ghost]

i dont think big games are ever going to not take advantage of being able to deliver patches after release. because business.

[Sek-Raktaa]

Origineel geplaatst door eula fridge:

i dont think big games are ever going to not take advantage of being able to deliver patches after release. because business.

yeah, that's a fact of the business: deadlines be deadlines.

it was the same thing 30 years ago in the 90's when I was growing up too. except it was a lot harder to get patches and fixes because internet was still in its infancy.

compared to what it used to be 30 years ago, we gamers really got it good nowadays.

I cannot stress that enough.

sure, things could be a lot better, I'm not arguing that.

I am saying however that things are nowhere near as bad as some of the younger and more entitled gamers pretend they are.

[livinggg]

99.9% of software is never "finished". If you can accomplish a finished product then consider yourself extremely talented.